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I know it has been successful in many localities, but I just do not like the soda tax Seattle is considering. It always feels very fat shaming whenever people trot it out. Here in Washington where we don’t have an income tax, it seems like a strange place to use your time and energy to push.

A developer came into my neighborhood, bought a shabby teardown, knocked it down and cut down the trees, then subdivided the land into minimum-size lots and threw up several ugly, boxy-looking houses built from cheap materials (there’s no plywood in these structures, only imported chip board, and the siding is plastic). One sold for a million dollars before being completed, and he put another on the market this weekend and it sold for a million dollars in less than an hour. I’m trying to figure out whether Seattle’s housing market is this desperate, or a lousy million dollars is this worthless, or both. I’m also wondering where people who work at McDonalds for $15/hr. are going to live when even Medicare-teat-sucking dumbfuck doctors soon won’t be able to afford the housing and taxes in this city. Burrows in city parks are still free, though, if you know how to dig.

I was under the impression that after people die they’re no longer Republican or Democrat, white or black, straight or gay anymore — just dead. I mean, the bugs and worms don’t care, so why does this funeral home care?

“A south Mississippi funeral home went back on an agreement to cremate an 86-year-old man after he died and paperwork showed he was gay, according to a lawsuit in state court.

“Picayune Funeral Home had told a nephew in Colorado that Robert Huskey’s body would be picked up and cremated for $1,795, and paperwork would be handled after his death, according to the lawsuit.

“But, it said, when the faxed-in form identified John Zawadski as Huskey’s husband, the nursing home where Huskey died was told the company did not “deal with their kind.”

I’ve been having extreme difficulty getting into HA the last several days. It keeps freezing my browser. Apparently the host can’t handle the traffic. Anyway, I have stock market business to tend to. The Trump rally is fizzling on the lousy economic data now coming out, and that means buying opportunities.

Now that Ryan’s opening up the floodgates for district by district horse trading, will Washington’s Reichert finally come down from his pedestal, belly up, and get something for his constituents? Or will he once again simply drop trou and give away his “moderate” vote?

Wasn’t so long ago that your side liked the sound of the sausage grinder.

Ever give consideration to the likelihood that if ACA had needed to undergo multiple votes, with modifications to correct problems prior to eventual passage, the Act would not be facing the crisis it now faces?

I don’t see the ACA replacement attempt failures as a problem. It’s a huge undertaking. So far, no vote. BFD.

Seriously. You Dems in Washington may not see a better opportunity than this for years to come. Sorry as I am for the Kimmels, there is after all a point to all this and a point behind his tears. Do-nothing, go-along schleps like Reichert are a big part of the problem. If he takes a vote to please his hillbilly masters in DC instead of his intelligent, educated, healthy, affluent, progressive constituents who put him there (oh, and BTW, to do the right thing) he should pay with his job.

Wasn’t so long ago that your side liked the sound of the sausage grinder.

Three things: We mostly restricted it to the Senate, where given the simple math (I know, one of your “challenge” areas) it meant buying one or two votes, not twenty or thirty; We never fed and nurtured a death cult of 25 members in our midst devoted to either smashing the grinder, or failing at that, liberally (sorry, couldn’t help it) seasoning the sausage with ricin, anthrax, ground glass, and arsenic; Your fucked up, beer drunk, treasonous hillbilly crisis born out of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s fragile ego is not America’s crisis – it’s our summer entertainment.

@17 “Ever give consideration to the likelihood that if ACA had needed to undergo multiple votes, with modifications to correct problems prior to eventual passage, the Act would not be facing the crisis it now faces?”

Ever consider that Republicans, having turned their backs on the opportunity they were offered to participate in writing ACA, now have no right to complain?

21, The way the Russian Traitor party is proceeding with this, Врач немой ебать’s even bigger mistake may be retiring when he did. If every single one of the “moderate” hillbilly wafflers gets an $8 billion green slush fund there’s gonna be nuthin’ but blue sky for the faith healers and poultice makers defrauding hillbilly state Medicare and Medicaid.

Meanwhile Врач немой ебать will be cashing out another fund to pay the horse doctor or buy another transmission for the truck. Smaht hillbilly.

22,Ever consider that Republicans, having turned their backs on the opportunity they were offered to participate in writing ACA, now have no right to complain?

Ah, yes. But they sure as fuck didn’t turn their backs on the opportunity for a little political theater. Who agrees to work out scheduling, coordinate the advance public communication, and attend an Executive level meeting, only then to stand up en masse and walk out during the opening remarks? Traitors do, apparently.

I stand by my position that ESPN will be fine when they can stream their own content for a fee without a required cable subscription. they just need to ride it out. Right now they are just keeping the same percentage of an ever shrinking pie of people willing to pay for cable.

28, Are you sure? Still makes them a middleman. Consider professional sports. What value do the “networks” deliver to the media content? A handful of retired ex-pros in their communion suits making chit chat between the whistles surrounded by ugly digital graphics? That’s not hard to pull off. If ESPN can stream direct to the audience, so can MLB, NBA, NFL, PAC12, etc. etc. and cut out the grifters in the middle. For now the content creators still depend on the middlemen to reach the audience. But that won’t last forever. It’s already breaking down fast.

Ever consider that Republicans, having turned their backs on the opportunity they were offered to participate in writing ACA, now have no right to complain?

Would that work as well as me writing that #CrookedHillary, having turned her back on white blue-collar males and law enforcement in favor of going full #BLM, and having turned her back on Wisconsin so she could pander to Arizona with a week to go before the election, now has no right to complain?

Or do you now realize, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, that you added nothing of value to the discussion?

You’ve moved on, to trying to avoid talking about obvious and bitter failure. That’s good, because diverting attention, weaseling away from talking about current events, and blatantly lying about your opponent’s good points are all you’ve got left now. Milk them for all it’s worth.

It’s going to be a long time until the next election for you. Cope as best you can.

Following the logic of why they want to implement such a tax the Mayor and others should be pushing for higher food stamp benefits for poor families in the city. More money for better milk, orange juice would mean poor people could make better choices. They may end up making better choices if the soda becomes the more expensive choice, but in that case the tax is too high and the city will not end up collecting enough to pay for the proposed programs. Basic economics. Well the soda industry won’t take it quietly. The lawyers and advertisers will make out big time. Wonder if those folks support the mayor.

@1 So you support the tax? Or do you support the policies of the companies you own stock in? Or are you one of them share holder activists and trying to get them to come with carrot and broccoli juice with some bubbles in them?

@3 That developer sounds like the kinda fellow who would go into the park and set up some trailers over your hole and sell them for millions and will take the money and run, with his retirement guaranteed. If he could get away with it.

@8 Well if he wants to be a traditionalist it’s empty. You Arabs sit down with Israelis, or I tell Turkey to get involved with you Arabs. Peace with Israel even as one state might be preferable to the Turks dealing with the Arabs in their combination of knocking heads and bribes. The occupied territories aren’t the tough nut Jerusalem is. Which will mean at best it’s a two state in one is the only workable solution. The Israelis have sort of adopted the US Indian reservation system. Worked for us, just took 80-100 years and it worked out well for everyone but the Indians, but they are doing better.

@22 Yet oddly the ACA is the Republican health plan, made with private insurance and private health as winners, and 80% still on health insurance from employers and no skin in the game. Now the Republicans are going to vote to kill their plan. It’s totally ironic, and the House has to pass it to keep their base happy. The Senate eventually has to go along ot Trump turns to the Democrats should they do very well in 2018.

@23 Your computer is stupid, it’s not intelligent and it cannot think. It can process if it has an operating system, and it does exactly what it is told. Yes it would jump off the cliff if told too or the other computers were doing it. Same is true of my lap top or the NSA’s super cray computer.

@31 Will you be the wedding planner for this ultimate polyamorous event? How does everyone get a license. Let us know if it’s possible everyone to get married. Your the wedding planner right? Ready to explain this to RRs wife?

@33 The writer of the article clearly is incapable of understanding the implications of what the article says. It takes the VP and the majority of the cabinet all who are supporters of the President and put in office by him to act in a way that would be political suicide, and in a manner that would e a palace coup short of Trump actually being extremely ill, having a stroke, or major health crises. Or does the writer just want Pence as President and a wet dream somehow Congress would make Hilliary Clinton as VP, and the not so minor issue if Trump recovers he becomes President again. A total constitutional crises, thank you Mrs. Wilson.

A fourth man is accusing Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex when the man was a teenager. In a sworn declaration filed in court late Tuesday, the man says he was introduced to Murray by Delvonn Heckard.

RUSH: Do you think people at ESPN know why they’re losing subscribers? Let me ask you a question: Do you think the people at CNN know why they have no audience? And they’re proud! Does CNN make any change whatsoever to try to change and grow an audience? No! Because they’re being given awards and accolades for being true to the liberal cause. Advertising agencies are taking care of ’em.

Still, some of the most-divisive on-air and print talents at ESPN remain. This seems to indicate that the layoffs had more to do with the economic situation at the four-letter network instead of politics itself.

Longtime ‘SportsCenter’ anchor: Politics played a role in layoffs

Rush been saying this for months that libtard politics on ESPN has caused millions to cut the cord. The ones left are so far left its pathetic! The little people continue to speak! Will ESPN listen?

If Comey had simply followed the law and charged Clinton for gross negligence last July, Democrats might well have won the election. Hillary would have either dropped out or been forced out and replaced by Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders, both of whom would have fared better with working-class whites than Clinton did.

Pertinent part of statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793 (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

When you are DUMMOCRETIN you almost NEVER have to cop a plea or say you are sorry! Why?

WASHINGTON ― Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez became the first head of the party to demand ideological purity on abortion rights, promising Friday to support only Democratic candidates who back a woman’s right to choose.

The final tally was 11,533 against the soda tax and 8,382 in favor. Voters in the city’s middle- and lower-income neighborhoods went against the tax in huge numbers, while the vote in Santa Fe’s affluent north and east sides split almost precisely 50-50.

Apparently three bucks in additional taxes for a 12-pack of Coke is too much to ask a poor person to pay in Albuquerque.

Tax opponents gathered at the downtown Boxcar Bar and Grill on Tuesday night. Activist Gloria Mendoza, born and raised in Santa Fe, but now living just outside the city limits, suggested during the campaign that elites should tax tofu instead of soda.

I could get behind a tofu tax. It’s just a different form of hippie-punching.

So, you’re adding a requirement that damage to national security be proven?

Comey’s already added a requirement for intent to the statute.

Using that rationale I guess attempted murder isn’t a prosecutable offense if the bullet completely misses its mark. Although the perp might be on the hook for reimbursing the victim for a new set of underpants if the shitstain can’t be washed out.

Once again, some people live in a bubble of articles about the failing New York Times and dying CNN and Rush, as ever, is wrong.

CNN just wrapped up its most-watched first quarter in 14 years, since the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003. The network was up +12 percent in Total Day viewers, and up +22 percent in the demo vs. Q1 2016.

And there it still is. The phony idea that Fuckface Von Clownstick’s election hinged on some mysterious overlooked special sauce of “independent” bricklayers and riveters. Bullshit. Its the same mob of aging, middle income, sloburban racist NASCAR dads and “security” moms that gave us a mountain of body bags at Dover. There’s no fixing these people. They simply have to be outnumbered until they can be eliminated.

Just pointing out that if one is going to lengthily quote a statute or bill one should take the time to read it and see if it applies.

And yes, as our resident lawyer will agree, if the law says something and the government charges you with violating that law unless you’re hoping for an activist court to reinterpret the law the Government would need to prove that the law was broken as written.

Here’s the truth: It doesn’t matter how much money you make, a baby in America is going to receive emergency care. As Politifact notes, for poor people, “Medicaid must cover necessary services for children’s physical or mental health, even if that service is not covered by Medicaid for adults in that state…”

“Here’s the truth: It doesn’t matter how much money you make, a baby in America is going to receive emergency care. As Politifact notes, for poor people, “Medicaid must cover necessary services for children’s physical or mental health, even if that service is not covered by Medicaid for adults in that state…”

Might even be true. But for the FACT the hillbillies are limiting and block granting Medicaid funds to the state where the baby lives. $100,000 per year to #SaveLittleBilly quickly becomes $80,000 per year… and sweet little Billy Kimmel slowly dies a horrible death in excruciating pain at the hands of treasonous, ignorant, sister-fucking, racist, hideous hillbilly monsters bent on giving tax cuts to Fuckface Von Clownstick.

@70 Where else will they get money to cut taxes for the rich if they don’t take it from the poor? But don’t forget a lot of the people getting screwed by this voted for these Republicans. What happens to them isn’t our problem.

72, certainly puts the lie to all their deceitful hand-wringing about the rights of the “unborn”. Here are they are literally murdering living, breathing, innocent, beautiful full term infants in order to give Fuckface Von Clownstick a tax break he’ll use to pay for more ugly gold paint and beveled mirrors. “Conservatives” are monsters! #SaveLittleBilly

When you get right down to it, GOP health care “reform” is all about spending less on health care for those least able to pay in order to give tax cuts to the rich without increasing deficits. No matter how they slice and dice it, the little people will pay, while the wealthy laugh all the way to the bank.

Notice how Dr DIPSHITTIUM checkmate-252 doesn’t analyze that DUMMOCRETIN e-rag pap? Find something to post and then use it!

If I responded to every truly dumb-ass delusional thing Piddles posted here I’d never get any work done. Or hike on a nice day. Or ride a bike around Snoqaulmie Valley or Lake Washington….

Yep, when Trump says “fake news” people believe him which is why his Rasmussen rating has been negative since March. It’s why Gallup has him as the least popular president in the history of Gallup.

Yep, Fox news viewers are switching over in droves to watch CNN as comedy. In Piddleworld, liver and onions tastes like Theo Chocolate, the sky is a love shade of Mauve and DerTrumper is a hero to all. And wine is non alcoholic grape juice.

@55 Never fear, those low income voters will soon have the opportunity to pay for the health consequences of their sugary dietary preferences themselves, so it all works out in the end.

Of course, it would never occur to Doctor Dumbfuck that the reasoning behind soda taxes is the same as the reason for motorcycle laws: The rest of us are tired of getting stuck with these fuckups’ health care bills.

To Doctor Dumbfuck, it looks like government interfering in people’s personal lives. To the rest of us, it’s the ageless principle that “your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose begins.”

As far as I’m concerned, they can drink all the soda they want, as long as I don’t have to pay for their obesity treatment or early funerals.

(Full Disclosure: Roger Rabbit owns Coca Cola stock, but doesn’t drink it, although I occasionally use it for removing rust from chrome. That’s one of the reasons it’s so popular with bikers; the other reason is it mixes well with what they like to drink, and cops won’t stop them for riding on the highway with a Coke can in their hand. It doesn’t have real sugar in it anyway, unless you get the Mexican stuff.)

It’s not journalism as presented in the dictionary: it’s political and social advocacy using news events as the raw material to compile, filter and slant towards the attainment of those agendas – Political and social.

81 – I’m with you. Let’s start by getting rid of that gold-plated 747 that the presidents use to fly around in. If the president wants to fly somewhere, he or she can buy an airline ticket like the rest of us. Or take a car and drive. Or maybe just pick up the phone and make a call.

82, and so to fix the abuse, low-information, poorly educated, hillbilly “independent”, “Libertarians” racists like you specifically chose to empower a lying, bloated, gaseous, incompetent, plutocrat because he promised to “drain the swamp”.

So now that his eldest daughter has set up a multi-billion dollar international venture capital investment fund she is running from within the White House, howz dat goin for ya?

Roger Rabbit Commentary: When government allows private businesses to do whatever they damn please, guess what they’ll do? As they damn please. If this guy was a Trump voter, I’d ask him, “How’s this free market working for ya?”

@77 When we were young our mothers were programmed to tell us liver and onions was good for us. Something to do with red blood cells, which ended up getting spilled into Vietnamese mud and dust anyway.

Last night Reichert informed the Times that he’s on board to join Hererra Beutler and #SaveLittleBilly.

That just leaves McMorris Rogers as the sole, remaining monster from Washington State voting to murder beautiful, precious, innocent, little baby Billy Kimmel. She should be so ashamed. But she’s a hillbilly traitor. So instead she’s celebrate by toasting sparkling wine while laughing and dancing on the bones of children.

I could get behind a tofu tax. It’s just a different form of hippie-punching.

In Dumbfuck World, the hippie movement was all into Japanese cuisine, because nothing reminds Dumbfuck of work-avoiding nonconformists like the Japanese do.

It's pretty revealing: Dumbfuck claims to medical knowledge, and here he is advocating a tax on one of the healthiest and least-expensive sources of protein, for no other reason than his own ignorant malice toward the supposed consumers.

(Let us guess: Dumbfuck will now inform us that taxing the poor into malnutrition was his idea of a joke. We can get behind that idea, for sure. Nothing could possibly be funnier to Dumbfuck than the prospect of hurting the innocent.)

Nothing would give me more pleasure than seeing the entire lot of them lined up against the wall and shot. They deserve nothing less than being staked out on an ant-hill somewhere in western Texas and covered in honey.

And @ 102:

You’re prevaricating about the Obama Administration continuing an “anti-terrorist” program started under George Dubbya Bush and then mostly aimed at journalists, anti-war protesters and environmental activists while he was President?

Dude, get help. You’re visibly deteriorating even beyond what you were three years ago.

They’re deliberately overcharging the Cop to all but guarantee an acquittal. Thats how Prosecuting Attorneys operate in Republican States. No cop in Texas has ever been successfully prosecuted for a murder when it was committed by an on-duty Police Officer.

I’m sure you’ll find some rationalization for this killing. You always do.

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